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Last name
Obando

Nobility: Señores - Caballeros - Familia Noble
Nobles in:
España (Cáceres)
Language of the text: English

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He had his lot in a place called Ovando (whose name he undoubtedly took), very close to the city of Cáceres. This is stated by Frías de Albornoz and the Noble Book Becerro de Castilla. In the city of Cáceres, of course, this great lineage had its main seat and noble manor palace, standing out among its most distinguished men the famous Governor of the West Indies Don Nicolás de O., Commander of Lares in the Order of Alcántara, born around 1460 and died in 1518. He enjoyed much authority and influence in the court of the Catholic Monarchs, who appointed him to hold such a prominent position in 1501, thus succeeding the famous Don Francisco de Bobadilla, whose great greed and misguided administration, aggravated by his clumsy and reprehensible conduct with Christopher Columbus had created serious complications and problems in those countries. In the last third of the 15th

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De plata, con una cruz floreteada de gules cantonada de cuatro veneras del mismo color. Bordura de gules con ocho sotueres de oro.

Escudo de la familia Obando. Fuente bibliográfica: "Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica Hispano-Americana. O/O, Rollo 18 A. y A. Garcia Carraffa".

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